ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS
Steel Deck Motor Truck Scale
6.3.7 Select Scale
6.3.8 Four Application-Specific Assignable Soft Keys
6.3.9 Five Scale-Function Soft Keys
6.3.10 Screen Navigation Keys for Up, Down, Left, and Right Commands
6.3.11 Enter
6.4 The operator shall be capable of entering alphanumeric characters through the
terminal without the need for an external keyboard. However, the scale
instrument shall, as an accessory, be capable of being interfaced to a standard
PS2-style computer keyboard without modifications to the scale instrument
hardware or software for the purpose of entering alphanumeric information, as
well as emulation of application and scale instrument soft-key functionality, if
required.
6.5 The scale instrument shall have the following operational parameters:
6.5.1 Capable of communicating with up to 5 pairs of digital load cell
assemblies with the ability to expand to 12 pairs, if required.
6.5.2 Ability to digitally average the weight information sent from the load cells
and updating the instrument’s weight display 15 times per second.
6.5.3 The scale instrument shall be capable of being programmed for sign-
corrected net weighing so that all net weights are positive.
6.5.4 The scale instrument shall have a transaction counter to automatically
assign sequence numbers to transactions.
6.5.5 The scale instrument shall have automatic zero capture on power-up
selectable to capture zero at 2% or 10% of the full-scale capacity.
6.5.6 The scale instrument shall have adjustable digital filtering.
6.5.7 The scale instrument shall have adjustable automatic zero maintenance
selectable for 0.5, 1, or 3 displayed increments.
6.5.8 The scale instrument shall have push-button zero selectable for 2% or
20% of full-scale capacity.
6.5.9 Tare, Zero, and Print functions shall be inhibited while the weight display
is changing. Motion detection shall be selectable for 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, or
3.0 increments.
6.5.10 The scale instrument shall only receive digital information from the load
cell assemblies. There shall be no analog-to-digital conversion function in
the scale instrument.
6.6 The scale instrument shall have the following service characteristics:
6.6.1 Set-up and navigation through all phases of set-up, calibration, and
testing shall be intuitive through a decision-tree format.
6.6.2 Capable of performing calibration, span, zero, and shift adjustment
through software calculations that require no in-scale adjustment.
6.6.3 Entry of information shall be accomplished through the instrument’s
keyboard only.
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